Love/Hate star John Connors has told how fans approach him asking him for a bare knuckle fight.

The 27-year-old Traveller actor and documentary maker admitted that he is a “very private person” and struggles with life in the public eye.

He told RTE: “I got into Love/Hate and then I got a different demographic from the documentaries.

“I try my best not to be a ***** because I realise it’s the first time that person has come up to you. They don’t realise fifty people have come up to you that night, mouldy drunk and being aggressive sometimes.

“Sometimes asking for fights - I’ve got that loads of times. I got the racism kind of stuff [too]. You bite your tongue and do the Martin Luther King thing.”

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“But sometimes people come up and they’re so genuine,” he continued. “You go, ‘What I’m doing’s not too bad - someone’s actually been affected [by it]’. Especially with the documentaries, because they’re real.

“It’s been hard dealing with it, but I’m kind of finding my way to dealing with it now.”

The Dubliner stars in new crime film Cardboard Gangsters, which follows a group of young drug dealers in Connors’ own neighbourhood, Darndale on Dublin’s northside.